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Yahoo! News (m)
Arianna Huffington
Forget the escalating sectarian violence. Forget the rising influence of Iran. Forget the 100-Iraqi-deaths-per-day. Forget the 2,638 American dead.
For Don Rumsfeld the problem isn’t that we are not winning the war in
Iraq, the problem is that we are not properly spinning the war in Iraq.
Along with comparing his critics to Hitler appeasers, [...]

CounterPunch, CA
August 20, 2006 (m)
Murder on Rucarb Street
By ELIZA ERNSHIRE
Ramallah.
August 29, Pre-dawn.
It is only now that the gun-fire saluting the killed young man has become sporadic and no longer constant, and that the verses of the Koran, chanted in farewell to him, has ceased. But the streets are full; and full too are the hearts [...]

CorpWatch.org, CA
This fact sheet is compiled from the August 2006 report Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast by Rita J. King.
The hurricanes that devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005 created a situation ripe for exploitation by corporations, a “free-for-all” maintained by government incompetence and corruption, especially by the Federal Emergency Management [...]

Gush-Shalom, Israel
26-08-2006
by Uri Avnery
IN HIS latest speech, which infuriated so many people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uttered a sentence that deserves attention: “Every new Arab generation hates Israel more than the previous one.”
Of all that has been said about the Second Lebanon War, these are perhaps the most important words.
The main product of this war [...]

Center for Constitutional Rights
Rubber Bullets & Pepper Spray Used to Subdue Elderly Detainees Objecting to Searching of Koran
Synopsis
On August 21, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released newly declassified notes detailing an eyewitness account of the mistreatment of the Koran and a subsequent attack on detainees by military police at Guantánamo in early June 2006. CCR [...]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) — An Opinion Research poll suggests only 35 percent of U.S. residents support the war in Iraq, marking a low for the war’s popularity.
The poll of 1,033 people conducted for CNN also found a record 61 percent of those surveyed oppose the war, the cable news network reported Tuesday.
Additionally, 51 percent [...]

TomPaine.com, D.C.
Helena Cobban
August 22, 2006
Helena Cobban is the author of the Justworldnews.org blog, and writes a regular column on global affairs for The Christian Science Monitor.
President George W Bush says it is unacceptable to return to the status quo that preceded the recent war between Israel and Lebanon and that the “root causes” of that [...]